Instead Date and Template, all other elements Tickets, Categories and Tags, Organizers, Places and Oher otions are optional, can be added if necessary depending on the type of event that is being configured. Find further information about Chronosly Settings options.

Before customizing optional elements, make sure your WP theme is able to display them*

*e.g. some WP themes has featured images, Google maps, and other elements disabled.

Date and Time set up

EVENTS DATE AND TIME

Show your users and audience when events are taking place, also recurrent events over time.

Don't include other time parameters like AM-PM

2. RECURRING AND REPEAT EVENTS

You can make an event repeat over a period of time like daily, weekly or every year. Repeating events saves you the time it would take to create multiple separate events and let’s you change all events in the series at once.

If you choose to repeat an event, more options will appear such as repeating the event over a period time, either in days, weeks or years. These new options will allow you to set the end of the repetitions, by setting an exact end date o a definite number of repetitions, for examples the event to ve repeated twice.

Note: Chronosly does not allow certain repetitions to be set. If the number of days with events is over a week or a month, the system does not allow the event to be published. E.g. if you create 8-days events, these can not be repeated weekly. 32-days events can not be set with weekly or monthly repetition.

It is possible to set 3-days events with daily repetitions. In this case the event would be repeated every 2 days.

ENHANCE YOUR RECURRENT EVENTS

It’s very easy to use. You simply create seasons within each event and then you will be able to create complex repeating combinations within that same event.

Also, Recurring events addon allow you to MANAGE MULTIPLE REPEATS of the same event, on the same day and even at the same hour. This is quite useful for clients who manage theater performances, classes etc…

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SOLD OUT OPTION

You can give extra information to your customers about ticket status with this SOLD OUT option.

At the moment this option, when is active, changes the status to "SOLD OUT" to all events. This mean that if you have an event that is repeated several times in different dates all them will be shown as "SOLD OUT".

We know that all event should be shown with his own status, so, quite soon we will develop an addon that will allow to manage each date event status independently.

SOLD OUT options active

Each template has its own SOLD OUT design. Check if this SOLD OUT option is available. The following examples shows SOLD OUT Default template style.

SOLD OUT info in event list FEATURED event unfolded

SOLD OUT info in event list

SELL REPORTS

With WooCommerce integration you can track your incomes, filtered by dates and category of the events.

Also you could manage all the information related to the tickets orders, csutomers and tickets status.

TICKETING TEMPLATE

This template was designed under strict premises, basically to take advantage on USABILITY (intuitively and easily sell your events and tickets options) and USER EXPERIENCE (modern, clean and credible). The result is an effective and convincing way of attracting an audience and tickets sales for your events.

"an effective and convincing way of attracting an audience and tickets sales for your events"

Categories

EVENT CATEGORIES SETTINGS

Categories are useful for your audience to be easy to find your events lately.
Chronosly has unlimited categories, so you can create as much categories as you need within events, e.g. jazz, electronic, rock, or anything you consider it'll be relevant for them.

Set up Categories is highly recomended, if not, views with categories involved can’t be shown. There are 2 different categories views:

- General View: how the category is displayed in the list of categories.

- Inner page view: it is the inner view of your category, a single page on the place, where all the information is shown.

HOW TO SET EVENT CATEGORIES

There are two ways to create categories:

1 - In Events > Add new event when you are adding a new event or within Events> Event when editing an event already created.

By default, if you have not changed the display options, find Organizers on the right sidebar.

2 - Within Events> Event Categories in the left sidebar.

Unlike point 1, you can add a description and change the slug.

Name / Title is mandatory whenever you create a new category. Leave the fields in blank and will not appear.

Categories Notes: You need to enter Edit each of the categories already created to modify the following:

- Category color: using the custom Color chooser, you can customize each category.

- Fatured category: give more prominence to an specific category. Featuring categories means making a single or various categories look different from normal ones. Categories feature you are more likely to Attract the attention of visitors calendar. Learn how to add featured elements.

Before customizing categories, make sure your choosen template is set to display catgories colors or featured customizations.

Extra information about TAGS

Tags provide a useful way to group related events together and to quickly tell audience what a event is about. Tags also make it easier for people to find your content. Tags are similar to, but more specific than, categories. The use of tags is completely optional.

There are two ways to create tags:

1 - In Events > Add new event when you are adding a new event or within Events> Event when editing an event already created.

By default, if you have not changed the display options, find Tags on the right sidebar.

You can add tags one at a time by clicking the Add button or hitting the Enter/Return key on your keyboard after typing each tag. Or you can add multiple tags at a time by separating them with a comma as you type.

To remove a tag from the event, click the small X icon next to the tag.

Organizers

ORGANIZERS FOR YOUR EVENTS

Organizers are profiles of the participants that are involved in your events e.g persons, universities, companies , corporations. Create profiles of the participants that are involved in your events e.g persons, universities, companies, corporations.

Set up Organizers is highly recommended, if not, views with organizers involved can’t be shown. There are 2 different organizers views:

General View

Inner page view

it is the inner view of your organizer, a single page on the place, where all the information is shown.

Single organizer view fully detailed

HOW TO CREATE ORGANIZERS

There are two ways to create organizers:

1. In Events > Add new event

when you are adding a new event or within Events> Event when editing an event already created.

By default, if you have not changed the display options, find Organizers on the right sidebar.

2. Within Events> Organizers

Using the left sidebar on Chronosly Events tab.

Unlike point 1, you can add a description and change the slug.

Name / Title is mandatory whenever you create a new organizer. Leave the optional fields in blank and will not appear.

-Fatured organizer: give more prominence to a specific organizer. Featuring organizers means making a single or various organizers look different from regular ones. Orgzanizers you feature are more likely to attract the attention of calendar visitors. Learn how to add featured elements.

Organizersnote: Before fill all optional fields of a organizer, make sure your choosen template is set to display this information.

Places

Create all places where your events will take place.

Set up Places is highly recommended, if not, views with places involved can’t be shown.

3. HOW TO SET LATITUDE & LONGITUDE

Latitude&Longitudedrag anddrop: To set a place in Chronosly calendar, fill in the address information and a map maker will appear at the right location.

-If the map marker doesn’t show the right location we suggest to add all address info including the post code.

-If the map marker is shown in the right street but further to the right, drag and drop the marker to the correct place. You will see that Lat. & Long. are filled in automaticaly and the map will be set up.

Chronosly places drag and drop map marker to set latitude and longitude coordinates.

Important: If Lat. & Long. has been filled in remember to erase it before changing the address.

Name / Title is mandatory whenever you create a new place. Leave the optional fields in blank and will not appear.

PlacesNotes:

-Whenyou'recreating a newplace(even ifyou edit(Edit) a posteriori, once createdandplace)You canenable or disablefeaturedplace:

-Fatured place: give more prominence to a specific venue. Featuring venues means making a single or various places look different from regular ones. Venues you feature are more likely to attract the attention of calendar visitors. Learn how to add featured elements.

Important: Before fill all optional fields of a places or set featured places, make sure your choosen template is set to display this information.

4. GOOGLE MAPS SCRIPT PROBLEMS

For our experience with many clients and websites, Google maps script included in Chronosly might cause some troubles. Most of the time, those misfunctions come from gmaps script duplication. That means other plugin/s installed in a site already has a gmaps script included.

Google maps only allow loading its script once within same site, so maps would not display or just generate errors.

To solve it, Chronosly include an option to enable/disable gmaps script.

ORGANIZERS AND PLACES ISSUES

When Chronosly FULL version and Organizers & Places have been successfully installed, organizers and places options should display within events tab.

Organizers and places enabled

1. HOW TO ENABLE ORGANIZERS AND PLACES

If those options doesn't display, try to enable organizers and places going to Chronosly settings.

Enable organizers and places (Chronosly settings)

2. ORGANIZERS AND PLACES OPTIONS (FOR EVENTS)

During event set up, should appear organizers and places options. If they don't display, you should allow organizers and places options display through WordPress "Screen Options" located in top right corner.

Featured events and images

CHRONOSLY FEATURED EVENTS

By default, if you have not changed the display options, find Options in the right sidebar of items with this configuration: events, categories, organizers and places.

There are two main options you'll find in Chronosly:

1. FEATURED EVENTS

Featured events give more prominence to a specific element e.g. Categories, Places, Organizers, Tickets. Featuring an element means making look different from normal ones. Featured elements are more likely to Attract the attention of visitor.

In this example you can see diferences between Featured and Normal events. You can visit our Live Demo for more real examples (Featured vs Normal style) clicking on each tab, Events, Organizers, Places and Categories.

Here is an example of Featured event vs Normal event in a Event list

To set featured Events, also for Organizers, Places and Categories, you can find the option on the metaboxes on sidebar side (by default).

- Select featured in Options box to set Featured style (Check first if template applied has included a featured design).

- If you want a Featured image as example add an image in "featured image" metabox in sidebar side. (Check first if template applied has included this featured image design).

Here is an example, where to find featured option and how to set Featured image in Chronosly back end.

How to set featured option and Featured image in Chronosly back end

ENABLE FEATURED IMAGE OPTION FOR EVENTS

In case you don't find "Featured image" option during Event set-up:

Be sure your Theme include Featured image option.

If it does, just be sure to enable this option in your dashboard "Screen options"

How to enable featured image option for events

FEATURED IMAGE SIZE AND ASPECT RATIO

Chronosly automatically scales and center images to fit to Featured image.

Best images high/width ratio are 0,7, so we always recommend images in portrait than landscape.

This is an example how a 800x430px is cropped and center when is added as a Featured image into a Chronosly event.

Image 800x533Featured event with a 800x533px resized and center image

However, if images are 16:9 or over (landscape) they can make some blank spaces as image below.

Featured event with a 800x300px with blank spaces

DISABLE FEATURED ON TOP

Disable "Featured on top" option to sort your Featured events by same criteria you choose in General settings.

2. ORDER

By default, Chronosly all items are ordered by date. This option is useful for customizing the order of any of the elements to give greater visibility and importance over the rest.If you want to change the default Order by another criterion you can go to Settings Chronosly> Settings> General> General Settings> Event sort order.

TIP for ORDER option: if you start using Order in some events, and you leave order in blank on others Chronosly will understand blank ones like "0". So, all those events with blank order will be placed in first positions.

How to – Find event ID

HOW TO FIND EVENT ID (ALSO ORGANIZERS, PLACES AND CATEGORIES)

HOW TO FIND EVENT, ORGANIZERS AND PLACES ID

Events ID can be found in 2 different ways:

1- In Event URL when event edit (see 1 in picture below):

yourdomain.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=3870&action=edit&lang=en

2- In "Get Shorlink" button when event edit (see 2 in picture below):

yourdomain.com/?p=3870

How to find event ID in back end

Note: For ORGANIZERS and PLACES is the same process, go to "Events tab" and select for wished organizer or place ID.

HOW TO FIND CATEGORIES ID

Is quite similar than events, organizers and places but category ID is only shown in URL.

Go to Events > Events categoriesand edit wished categories. You will find category ID in the URL. Like this:

yoursite.com/wp-admin/......&tag_ID=30&.....

You will find Category Id when editing in URL

Why – Images don’t show up

WHY IMAGES DON'T SHOW UP?

Chronosly event calendar plugin fits the vast majority of WordPress Themes available in the market. From first outline design, Chronosly was only programmed with this objective, to fit 100% of WordPress Themes.

Nonetheless, this matter can be out of reach, and sometimes, just a few, Themes are incompatible with Chronosly plugin.